Since kitschadelic pop already exists in the world, abundantly, what does simulation-kitsch actually add by way of surplus value? A layer of reflexivity, studied inauthenticity, of meta-manufacturedness? But the faux-real already exists, with Taylor Swift and other TeenNick Top 10 fare? Can K-pop, so denatured it's practically animation, be surpassed on this front?

This is the same question I have with vaporwave, with James Ferraro's takes on rap / R&B, and so forth.